Puzzling Out Man's Ascent.

Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading   Processing Request
Read Online Read More Add to Saved list
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      LEAKEY, Richard, 1944-2021; LEAKEY, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972; LEAKEY, Mary D. (Mary Douglas), 1913-1996; LEAKEY, Jonathan
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on anthropologist Richard Erskine Leakey, who is known for discovering a Homo habilis fossil in 1972 and a Homo erectus in 1975, as well as proving their coexistence with Australopithecus on the same timeline through carbon dating. Leakey is from a famous family of anthropologists, wherein his father Louis had dominated anthropological discoveries in Africa, his mother Mary had founded the oldest known homo genus fossil in 1975, and his brother Jonathan had first discovered Homo habilis in 1961. Leakey spent his childhood mostly on the archeological expeditions of his parents, where he learned the jargons of anthropology at an early age. The first archeological expedition led by Richard in Tanzania in 1963 yielded fossil fragments of Australopithecus robustus.